April 20, 2022 Aligned Chicago ORD-01
Aligned has announced the completion of work on the first data center at its campus in Chicagoland. In addition, the company has also broken ground on a new data center at the campus. Aligned completed the first phase of its ORD-01 data center, which is located in Northlake, Illinois. The data...
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January 31, 2022 Hut 8 Corp
TORONTO, Jan. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Hut 8 Mining Corp. (Nasdaq: HUT) (TSX: HUT) ("Hut 8" or "the Company"), one of North America's largest, innovation-focused digital asset mining pioneers, supporting open and decentralized systems since 2018, is pleased to announce the closing of its...
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December 13, 2021 T5 Data Centers
Aligned, Ascent, Corscale, and T5 have all announced that they will be using Ledger8760's 24x7 tracking platform to record their carbon emissions' hour-by-hour. This tracking system will reportedly enable companies to be more transparent about their energy and utility data, and crucially,...
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November 12, 2021 T5 Data Centers
The Lincoln Property Company is offering a former T5 data center at 600 Albany Post Rd, Briarcliff Manor, New York, for sale or lease. The data center has two stories, and it has 36,000 square feet of space while sitting on 9 acres of land. The facility has a capacity of 2MW, expandable to 4MW....
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May 20, 2021 Microsoft Hoffman Estates 1
Microsoft just gained approval from Hoffman Estates village board members to build a data center outside of Chicago, Illinois. The approved data center building is one of the two planned buildings at the 53-acre site. A 250,000 square feet building would be erected at the first phase while the...
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April 28, 2021 Aligned Chicago ORD-01
Aligned has announced that it has begun work on its latest hyperscale data center campus in Chicago, Illinois. The 48MW data center is the first to be constructed on the 18.5 acre campus and stands at 220,000 sqft. Once completed, the campus will offer 100+MW of capacity. The data center, known...
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April 12, 2021 Element Critical CH1
Element Critical and parent company Safanad Inc. recently secured a $71.5 million loan to refinance their Chicago data center portfolio. The loan provided by Annaly Capital Management Inc. will go towards renovations for two data center facilities based in the Elk Grove Village area of Chicago,...
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March 09, 2021 Microsoft Hoffman Estates 1
According to plans submitted to the Hoffman Estates council, Microsoft aims to build two data centers on the 53-acre site on the north side of Lakewood Blvd in two phases. Phase one would see a 250,000 sq ft (23,200 sqm) building erected by the end of 2022. The second phase would be a 150,000 sq...
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December 09, 2020 Stream Chicago II
Stream has announced that is expanding in the Chicago metro. The new building will be near the company's first data center in Elk Grove and will have 130,000 sqft of raised floor and 32-megawatts at full build-out. The first phase will begin in February 2021 and will finish in Q3 with 4 MW...
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July 02, 2020 Meta: DeKalb IL
Facebook has announced that it will build a new data center campus in DeKalb Illinois The DeKalb Data Center facts: The campus is on 505 acres located on Route 23 and Gurler Road. The Facebook-owned land can accommodate five buildings, and two will be completed by 2022. The five buildings will be...
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June 02, 2020 CoreSite Chicago CH2
CoreSite has announced it has completed the first phase of its second data center in Chicago. CoreSite has designed and built a 169,000 square foot facility with a total of 18 megawatts of capacity, known as “CH2,” in the heart of downtown Chicago. The CH2 data center is one of the first...
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January 21, 2020 T5 Chicago II
T5 Data Centers has acquired a data center in Elk Grove, on the West side of Chicago. The 164,000 sqft facility is located in the Elk Grove Technology Park and is the company's second facility in Elk Grove. T5's first Chicago area data center is 1.5 miles away at 1441 Touhy Ave The facility is...
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September 12, 2019 NYI Chicago (Oak Brook)
New York Internet (NYI) is expanding to Chicago through a data center acquisition. NYI has acquired the data center business at 800 Jorie Boulevard in Oak Brook Illinois. The facility was previously operated by Navisite. More info in the press release below. NYI Press Release New York, NY –...
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July 23, 2019 DataBridge Sites
Acquiring Bytegrid’s Former Book of Business Will Extend Agile Data Sites’ Footprint in Washington, D.C. and Establish a Presence in the Chicago, IL MarketDALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Agile Data Sites, a provider of modern, scalable, and secure IT infrastructure solutions, announces that it is...
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June 21, 2019 STACK Chicago CHI01
STACK Infrastructure, a Denver based data center provider, announced that it is expanding its Elk Grove facility. The expansion will offer 20 megawatts of additional critical capacity, bringing the total capacity to 33 megawatts. “Chicago is one of a number of important and growing markets for...
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March 26, 2019 SBA Edge: 603 Discovery
New Continuum has persuaded ISI Communications to move its core network node into its facility. This is no easy feat. Certainly the fact that United IX is in the building helped to make the decision easier. The New Continuum Press Release: ISI Communications is leveraging New Continuum’s edge...
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March 07, 2019 Microsoft Chicago Northlake
HOUSTON, and REDMOND, Wash. — March 7, 2019 — EDP Renewables SA (EDPR), through its fully owned subsidiary EDP Renewables North America LLC, and Microsoft Corp. have executed two 15-year power purchase agreements (PPA) totaling 125 megawatts (MW) that will bring the Timber Road IV Wind Farm to...
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January 07, 2019 Element Critical CH2
Data Center and Colocation Provider Adds 195,000 Square Feet of Space with Plans to Invest $40 Million to Expand and Enhance Facilities Located in Wood Dale, IL CHICAGO – Element Critical, a leading provider of data center and IT infrastructure services driven by customer-centric, solutions...
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January 02, 2019 725 S Wells - 1547 Critical Systems
A partnership between CIM Group, one of the more prominent real estate developers in Chicago, and a New Jersey-based data center operator bought a South Loop data center for $27 million. Anderson Pacific Group, a Chicago-based investor that specializes in telecom projects, started developing the...
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December 05, 2018 Iron Mountain Chicago
The Daily Herald reports that a $75 million data center will replace the former Des Plaines location of men's suit manufacturer Hart Schaffner Marx, which relocated within the city this year. The city council unanimously recommended a property tax break Monday to lure Iron Mountain Data Centers...
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